Strathspey

A classic march, strathspey, and reel performance from 23 years ago: ❋ John (2009)

It's called "Johnnie Lad" and she delivered it in Scots dialect to the heart-catching original strathspey tempo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the exhibits regarding the origins of the "Auld Lang Syne" melody show, these kinds of strathspey dance tunes were in circulation long before this one first became associated with Burns's poem in Thomson's "Select Collection" —published in 1799, shortly after the poet's death. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2011)

As my strathspey with Mary comes to an end, there is a tap on my shoulder. ❋ Alison Larkin (2008)

Scottish jigs, and reels, and ‘twasome dances’, with a strathspey or hornpipe for interlude; and the want of grace on the part of the performers was amply supplied by truth of ear, vigour and decision of step, and the agility proper to the northern performers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if fixed and prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table, and whistled a strathspey. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There's a little strathspey called "Jessie's Welcome Home" in the first Edcath book. ❋ John (2003)

As they glided along the silver mirror, Evan opened the conversation with a panegyric upon Alice, who, he said, was both CANNY and FENDY; and was, to the boot of all that, the best dancer of a strathspey in the whole strath. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We'll have to learn a new MSR - that's march, strathspey, and reel - and a new competition medley at least. ❋ John (2002)

Some of us have played the strathspey before but not in a few years. ❋ John (2002)

A dog barks, resurrected from the heat, and someone has struck up a strathspey on the fiddle, it being still too warm for a reel. ❋ Macdonald Ann-Marie (1996)

Late in the day, Kieran took out the whistle and played a few of the Irish tunes he remembered from his days with Toby's band and tried a strathspey that he'd learned from a piper the last time he'd played a club in Halifax. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1990)

A tankard of the Fool's best was in front of him as he watched the expert belly dancer strutting her stuff to a Scottish strathspey. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1990)

And then, waiting no answer to what demanded none, he put the flageolet to his lips again and began to play a strathspey to which the company in the true bucolic style beat time with feet below the table. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)